Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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New Mexico veteran-owned small business nominated for Department of Energy award

March 21, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pluma, LLC, has been nominated by Sandia National Laboratories as the Department of Energy’s Protégé of the Year as part of its Mentor-Protégé Program. Pluma, a general construction business started in Albuquerque, is one of five businesses Sandia accepted into the program with the mission of helping...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: mentor-protege, New Mexico small business, small business, veterans

World’s fastest burst-mode X-ray camera hits the road

March 13, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nuclear reactions are fast. Really fast. Faster than billionths of a second. Your best shot at catching one is with a high-speed X-ray camera that can only be obtained from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. But these cameras could soon become more widely available. Sandia...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, fusion, imaging, MESA, microelectronics, sensors, small business, TRGR, X-ray

Economic impact: Sandia Labs tops $4.2B in spending for first time, added 480 jobs in FY22

January 11, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories’ contributions to the economy have topped $4.2 billion in a fiscal year, supporting individuals, families and businesses at an unprecedented level. Total spending in fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, was $312 million more than the previous fiscal year....

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: employment, mentor-protege, philanthropy, small business, spending, taxes, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit

Propelling wind energy innovation

September 8, 2022 • [caption id="attachment_20521" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboartories’ Twistact technology proves beneficial in lowering costs, improving sustainability and reducing maintenance for next-generation direct-drive wind turbines. (Photo by Zhang Fengsheng…

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: direct-drive wind turbines, electrical contact, renewable energy, rotary electrical contact, Sandia National Laboratories, technology transfer, twistact, wind energy, wind turbines

Sandia’s Twistact technology proves beneficial in lowering costs, improving sustainability and reducing maintenance for next-generation direct-drive wind turbines.

Sandia Science & Tech Park continues to strengthen economy

August 10, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new, independent report concluded that the Sandia Science & Technology Park continues to be a major contributor to Albuquerque’s regional economy. Since it was established in 1998, companies and organizations in the research park have paid nearly $7.2 billion in wages and generated more than $4...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic impact, Sandia Science & Technology Park

Roadsigns mark the intersection of Research Road and Innovation Parkway

Cheers to five more years

April 14, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An initiative that helps businesses transform New Mexico national laboratories’ technologies into viable products and services will continue driving innovations to market into 2027. Passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Michelle …

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: commercialization, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, intellectual property, licensing, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, tech transfer, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

Including everyone at the table

April 12, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In less than three years at Sandia National Laboratories, competitive intelligence specialist Kelli Howie has made waves throughout the federal laboratory complex by creating programs to boost diversity in technology transfer activities.Howie’s target…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: diversity and inclusion, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC Award, tech transfer, technology transfer

Economic impact: Sandia spends $3.9B, exceeds small-business goals

January 12, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supporting a growing workforce and a wide range of businesses, Sandia National Laboratories contributed an all-time high of $3.9 billion into the economy during fiscal year 2021. This is about $139 million over the previous fiscal year. The spending inc…

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic impact, Economic Impact Brochure, fiscal year 2021, FY21, New Mexico small business, small business

Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space

September 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Former Sandia National Laboratories s…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: DragonSCALES, Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, ESTT, MEMS, MEPV, MESA, mPower, satellite, satellites, solar cells, solar glitter, solar power, tech transfer, technology transfer

Pathways to production

August 30, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Biologists at Sandia National Laboratories developed comprehensive software that will help scientists in a variety of industries create engineered chemicals more quickly and easily. Sandia is now looking to license the software for commercial use, resea…

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bioengineering, biomanufacturing, biotechnology, software licensing, synbio, synthetic biology, technology transfer

A graphical illustration of the kind of retrosynthetic analysis conducted by RetSynth software.

Imaging tool under development exposes concealed detonators — and their charge

July 22, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Behold the neutron, the middle child of subatomic particles. At times overshadowed by its electrically charged siblings the proton and the electron, neutrons quietly play important roles in national security. They start nuclear reactions for weapons and power plants. They bombard materials for nuclear safety tests. And...

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: electric fields, imaging, neutrons, quantum information science, quantum sensing

Legendary licenses

April 28, 2021 • Licensing expert Bob Westervelt, who has worked to transfer Sandia National Laboratories technologies in the medical, solar and hydrogen production fields, received the 2021 Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.The consort…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Bob Westervelt, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Award, intellectual property, licensing, tech transfer, technology transfer

CRADAs, licenses lead to billions in economic impact since 2000

April 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and patent license agreements between Sandia National Laboratories and outside partners led to billions in economic impact and supported tens of thousands of high-paying jobs every year for the last two decades, according to a recent study on national economic contributions. CRADAs...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, economic impact, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, tech transfer, techlink report, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

Small IT business wins Sandia’s largest single subcontract

February 25, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories awarded an information technology subcontract of potentially up to $700 million over a possible seven years to a New Mexico small business. This is the largest subcontract Sandia has issued to date.“It’s a big deal and a…

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: contracts, information technology, IT, New Mexico small business, small business, subcontract, subcontracts

Tread tester

February 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Simulating how a tire’s tread, rubber and size respond to a road’s corners, angles and hills, Sandia National Laboratories and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have developed a virtual means of showing a tire’s performance before the first prototypes are ever built. Computer simulations test a...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: computer simulation, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Flat Trac, Goodyear, modeling, tires, vitual

Computer scientists studying virtual simulation.

Economic Impact: Sandia Labs injects $3.76B into economy

January 27, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Driven by the purchasing of goods and services and payroll, Sandia National Laboratories injected an all-time high of more than $3.76 billion into the economy in fiscal year 2020. “It’s no secret that the second half of the year was tough on a lot of people and...

Categories: Community / Education, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: contracts, economic impact, Economic Impact Brochure, small business, spending, subcontracts, taxes

Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite

November 19, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that can create explosions or flash events due to damaged …

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: arc-fault generator, arc-fault prevention, arc-faults, Guardian Sensors, in-line connectors, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA

Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards

November 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awa…

Categories: Awards, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: BayoTech, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRADA, DragonSCALES, ducted fuel injection, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Awards, intellectual property, IP, licensing, mPower, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Rapid Technology Deployment Program

First companies picked for Sandia’s new Mentor-Protégé Program

October 26, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has selected three companies as its first protégés in a new partnership program designed to help small businesses develop and build solid foundations when competing for federal and industry opportunities. “Sandia was looking for small businesses that wanted to grow and learn, and we...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: CeLeen, mentor-protege, Pluma, small business, Stategic Industry

small-business program manager Paul Sedillo presenting to small-business representatives and owners during a forum last year

Turning up the heat on molten salt valves

October 5, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is partnering with Flowserve Corp. and Kairos Power LLC on a $2.5 million, three-year Department of Energy Advanced Valve Project grant to lower the cost and boost the efficiency of concentrating solar power in the U.S. Control valves are a critical link in managing...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: concentrating solar power, Flowserve, Kairos Power, molten salt valve, solar power, sunshot, SunShot Initiative

Energy tech development for US, NM aim of Sandia and PNM partnership

September 21, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and New Mexico’s largest electricity provider, PNM, have teamed up to bring energy resiliency, security and stability to the state and country. “The partnership with PNM will address energy challenges not just in New Mexico but across the United States,” Sandia Labs Director James...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: artificial intelligence, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, energy conversion, energy storage, photovoltaics, PNM, PNM Resources, Sandia National Laboratories

NM companies may receive up to $150K in technical assistance

August 28, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Eligible New Mexico companies can submit statements of intent to work with scientists and engineers at Sandia or Los Alamos national laboratories through a new program to advance technologies derived from the labs into market-ready products and services…

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer

Business technology interaction at Sandia

Sandia Science & Tech Park spurs economic growth

August 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new, independent report has concluded that the Sandia Science & Technology Park contributed significantly to the local economy in 2018-19 by adding 310 jobs and generating increases in economic activity and tax revenue to the city and New Mexico.T…

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic impact, mid-region council of governments, MRCOG, Sandia Science & Tech Park, Sandia Science & Technology Park, SS&TP

Helping protect medical professionals

August 5, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equ…

Categories: Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, masks, n95, n95-like, n95-like respirators, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, personal protective equipment, PPE, respirators

Cybersecurity researchers at Sandia Labs take spotlight at national showcase

July 20, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are earning national recognition for cybersecurity platforms they conceived. Adrian Chavez and Vince Urias were invited to pitch their software to investors, entrepreneurs and prospective customers at a special virtual event sponsored by the Department of Energy to accelerate the commercialization...

Categories: Cybersecurity, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: cybersecurity

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